WEEK

DATE

TOPICS

RELEVANT READINGS

1^st Week

28.09.2016

Acquaintance Meeting / Instructions

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2^nd Week

05.10.2016

Understanding Gestalt Theory:
The Part-Whole Relationship

Required Reading:
Koffka, K. (1936). Principles of Gestalt Psychology. Lund Humphries, London.

Additional Reading:

Gunay, B. (2007). Gestalt theory and city planning education. METU JFA, 1, 93--113.
 

3^rd Week

12.10.2016

* Brake - excursions *

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4^th Week

19.10.2016

Urban Morphology: The Schools and Insights of Morphology

Required Reading:

Levy, A. (1999). Urban Morphology and the Problem of the Modern Urban Fabric: Some Questions for Research. Urban Morphology, 3(2), 79–85.

Additional Reading:

Conzen, M. R. G. (1960). Alnwick, Northumberland: A study in town-plan analysis. London: George Philip.

Kropf, K. (2005). “The Handling Characteristics of Urban Form”. Urban Design, Winter 2005, Issue 93.

5^th Week

26.10.2016

The Dimensions of Urban Design

Required Reading:

Carmona, M. et al., 2003, Public Places Urban Spaces, Elsevier, UK

Additional Reading:

Lang, J., 2005, Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, Elsevier, UK

6^th Week

02.11.2016

Site Analysis Techniques

Required Reading:

Meeda B. et al., 2007, Graphics for Urban Design, Tomas Telford Pub., USA

Additional Reading:

Gindroz, R. et al.,2003, The Urban Design Handbook, Techniques and Working Methods, W.W. Norton & Company, USA

7^th Week

09.11.2016

The Position of Urban Design in Planning

Required Reading:

DETR, 2000, By Design, Urban Design in the Planning System: Towards Better Practice, DETR, UK

Additional Reading:

Binnekamp R. et al., 2000, Open Design, a Stakeholder-oriented Approach in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Project Management

8^th Week

16.11.2016

Urban Design as an Interdisciplinary Field:

Meeting with different professionals i.e. architects, landscape architects, planners…

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9^th Week

23.11.2016

Excursion to Eskisehir Highway

Suggested Readings on the Case Area:

Tekin, T. (2008). Transformation of an urban “vector”:

Eskisehir Highway, Ankara. METU

Bonjaku-Gökdemir, O. (2009). Architecture as an urban and social sign: Understandıng the nature of urban transformatıon ın Eskısehır highway, Ankara. METU

10^th Week

30.11.2016

Play the City:
Focus Group Exercises on Eskisehir Highway

Suggested Reading:

Portugali, J. et al., 2012, Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age, Springer, NL

Web Page: http://www.playthecity.nl/17300/en/city-gaming-method

11^th Week

07.12.2016

Critics & Studio Exercises: Eskisehir Highway – Week I

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12^th Week

14.12.2016

Critics & Studio Exercises: Eskisehir Highway – Week II

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13^th Week

21.12.2016

Critics & Studio Exercises: Eskisehir Highway – Week III

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14^th Week

28.12.2016

Final Submissions / Discussions on the Course

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